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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
In 1885, Danish engineer Poul Larsen traveled from Copenhagen to Coplay to learn about the cement-making process from cutting-edge industry pioneers at the Saylor Cement Co.
Larsen made the three-week trek by ship across the Atlantic Ocean on behalf of his boss, Frederik L. Smidth, a consulting engineer who specialized in designing steam engines and mill machinery -- mostly devices to help in the production of brick and tiles.
Not long after Larsen's trip, his company had a contract to build a cement plant in Sweden and he was made a partner. F.L. Smidth & Co. had a new direction and mission that would carry the business for more than 100 years.
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Monday 2 June, 2008 04:47 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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Mechernich- With the slogan “... alles ausser Drucken” (“... everything but printing”), Deutsche Mechatronics is presenting modular solutions for printing-related activities at the DRUPA trade fair. For the first time, the company will show the optimised integration of peripheral components for drying, curing and cooling processes and exhaust air purification. The inline measurement of the degree of dryness and the integrated powder extraction are also world firsts.
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Thursday 29 May, 2008 04:46 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-IFS, the global enterprise applications company , announced today that Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group, a leading supplier of ropeways and other rope-based passenger transport systems as well as systems for bulk material transport, has signed a contract to implement IFS Applications. The group typically runs about 150 – 200 tightly scheduled projects and aims to optimize project control and execution with IFS Applications.
The new enterprise applications will replace a number of customized stand-alone systems that do not fulfill the need for an integrated, agile system which supports Doppelmayr/Garaventa’s international operations. The Group has production facilities and sales and service locations in over 30 countries including the U.S., and to date has built almost 14,000 installations in 79 countries. Forecasting, planning and timely delivery of work and material are essential for project-centric, engineer- to-order manufacturing companies, which require an ERP system in which all activities can be monitored and tightly controlled.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 08:40 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
TEESSIDE (UK) University is the top place in the country to study mechanical engineering , according to a new report.
The Guardian’s University league table revealed Teesside has moved from second to first place in the ranking of British universities that teach mechanical engineering.
Teesside scored 10 out of 10 for value added to students undertaking the degree and gained high marks for satisfaction with teaching and assessment on the course.
Vice chancellor Graham Henderson said: “We are delighted with this reaffirmation of the excellence of our university’s engineering programme, which is designed to produce graduates with the skills employers desperately need, in our region and across the UK and beyond”.
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Sunday 4 May, 2008 10:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Design, construction and operation of engines and machines - includes aerospace engineering, naval architecture, production and manufacturing engineering and maritime technology
What will I learn?
Engineering degrees cover all things related to developing, providing and maintaining infrastructure, products and services that society needs - from researching how to manufacture a product to building bridges and roads.
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 06:30 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
A scabbed-over road burn on Erik Chamberlain's forearm serves as a reminder of a defining moment for a group of Portland State engineering students who competed at the annual ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge last weekend.
Chamberlain and a group of four other PSU students built their own Human Powered Vehicle (in layman's terms, a bicycle) for the Reno, Nev. competition, an event that measures how well students can design and build durable, fast and reclined bicycles.
During the endurance portion of the competition, Chamberlain took a hairpin turn too fast and crashed the bicycle, snapping one of its custom-made bike chains. It was one of many crashes the teammates took while pursuing victory in the competition.
"We all got some scrapes on us," Chamberlain said.
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Saturday 26 April, 2008 06:11 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Some robots build cars and some run factories. Then there are those that fight to the death.
A group of those robots will engage in combat at the annual Smackdown in Sactown battle of the bots, noon-5 p.m., Sunday, April 27 in the University Union.
The Smackdown, sponsored by students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, is part of the Engineering Expo, an annual event that showcases student projects.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 02:01 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
“I wish I could retrace my steps!” sighs Sanjay, working with an IT firm. “The nature of my job is so mundane, totally shorn of any intellectual deciphering. Succinctly speaking, it’s just ‘cut and paste’ work, which even a tenth pass can pull off. Besides, there’s the threat of getting ousted from here, when you don’t deliver the goods, not to forget the profession’s concomitant woes of knee pain, backache, eyestrain, et al. I wish I had taken up Mechanical Engineering, for which I had a penchant”, bewails Sanjay.
It’s not uncommon to behold many students choosing an academic course, especially at a crucial phase, much against their wishes. By the time they discern that the move made was downright wrong, the debacle would have turned irrevocable.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 10:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
The tests of a 500-foot yacht are being conducted in the shores of the Baltic Sea amid great secrecy.
In the last issue The Sunday Times told about “Flagship yacht for Admiral Abramovich”. The paper states that the Russian magnate, who already owns 3 gorgeous yachts, bought the largest privately owned yacht ever built – the Eclipse. These days the yacht is being tested off the German Baltic island of Ruegen.
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Thursday 10 April, 2008 06:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
It's not uncommon this time of year to see a light on somewhere in the University of Evansville's Koch Center for Science & Engineering late at night.
Come spring semester, UE engineering students are burning the midnight oil to prepare various projects for competitions. The students are busy putting their classroom knowledge and personal ingenuity to work on projects such as GPS-guided lawn mowers, firefighting robots, steel bridges, vehicles, concrete canoes and moonbuggies.
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Tuesday 8 April, 2008 02:04 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
FORT COLLINS - Dave Alciatore has taught mechanical engineering at Colorado State University for 18 years, but students still don't call him professor.
To them, he's "Dr. Dave" - a billiards expert who uses the mechanics of pool to help his students learn mechanical engineering and physics principles.
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Saturday 5 April, 2008 10:10 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
A world leading UK engineering firm and Imperial College London are working together to train the next generation of engineering undergraduates in a creative design course which started this month.
Academics from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are working with staff members from the engineering company Buro Happold to teach creative design to first and second year undergraduates studying for their Civil and Environmental Engineering degree at the College.
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Friday 4 April, 2008 02:09 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
Ultra Dynamics,engineers and manufacturer of the UltraJet range of waterjets , says waterjets are currently the first choice of propulsion for wind farm workboats, the reason being increased manoeuvrability and the ability to hold station while work is being carried out. A key requirement when servicing offshore wind farms, especially in very rough sea conditions.
Waterjets can also be serviced quickly and easily often without dry-docking the boat, which means less engineering down time and cost savings to the end customer. An important issue when a vessel is operating in an area where there are no facilities to undertake extensive repair work.
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Friday 4 April, 2008 10:07 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
Fire sprinklers have proven to be a highly effective tool in reducing the loss of life and property from fires for more than 125 years. The usage, as well as the end use applications of these products, continues to expand and, according to the International Fire Sprinkler Association, an estimated 100 million fire sprinklers were installed worldwide in 2006. Because the application and installation environments are expanding and changing, on-going engineering performance assessments of these products in the field are instrumental in maintaining a high level of effectiveness.
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Friday 4 April, 2008 02:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Within a 9 foot by 10 foot by 12 foot vacuum chamber, the microscope, Germany's VisiTec Microtechnik GmbH MIRA X , has a 5-foot by 5-foot by 5-foot operating volume. It is capable of examining 60-inch and larger objects.
"The new MIRA X provides exciting opportunities for the center," said Russell Howard, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Engineering director. "Not only will it result in significant cost savings and invaluable support to critical aging aircraft issues, but we also look for its advanced and unique capabilities to attract additional workload to Tinker from other government agencies and private industries."
"All the angular manipulations used to view an object are accomplished by moving or rotating the column, so the piece stays still," said Scot Roswurm, senior materials engineer and acting chief of the 76th Maintenance Support Squadron's Metallurgical Analysis Section. ....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 2 April, 2008 02:11 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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Forty Shuar tribe families at the edge of an Amazon rain forest in Ecuador stand to see dramatic improvement in their living conditions through the work of students in Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
Several members of the ASU chapter of Engineers Without Borders spent more than a week this month in the remote Amazonian village of Tsurakú, bringing tribal leaders designs for solutions to their water quality, water supply and sanitation problems. ....click the link to read more
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Monday 31 March, 2008 10:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Caterpillar Inc., moving to boost its presence in the booming Asia-Pacific market, on Wednesday unveiled an approximately $500 million transaction that will engineer the heavy-equipment giant's 50 percent ownership stake in a Japanese joint venture to a controlling 67 percent.
For more than four decades, the Peoria-based manufacturer and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. have operated an equally owned venture that makes Caterpillar-branded construction and earthmoving equipment. ....click the link to read more
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Sunday 30 March, 2008 10:19 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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The Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have launched a joint £45m initiative to boost UK medical engineering innovation.
The Medical Engineering initiative will fund the creation of multidisciplinary centres of excellence across the UK. This will bring together experts in the fields of the physical sciences and engineering with those in clinical and life sciences to develop innovative healthcare solutions. ....click the link to read more
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Saturday 29 March, 2008 10:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Domination of India software industry doesn´t need introduction any more. India software development and support services are catering the industry in the best possible manner. And making these more complimentary is the outsourcing process of engineering services and support to India . Big shots gun Like US and UK are outsourcing their work to India. And in the process of outsourcing each and every single work is outsourced and architectural and engineering outsourcing is vital part of this outsourcing process. ....click the link to read more
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Friday 28 March, 2008 02:07 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Partnerships between schools and industry around Mildura in western Victoria are giving students insights and possible entrées into careers in winemaking and engineering .
Regional Industry Career Adviser Pat Hamdorf has used her local knowledge and contacts to initiate relationships between Sunraysia district schools and Lindemans Wines, and between Irymple Secondary College and local firm A&G Engineering. It may not be particularly newsworthy, but the title says it all ....click the link to read more
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Tuesday 25 March, 2008 02:20 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
It is undeniable that commercial transport jets are undergoing an “extreme makeover” in advanced composites. Composite materials account for roughly half of the structural weight on Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner and Airbus Industries’ materializing A350 XWB. That’s more than double the percentage on commercial jets introduced just 10 years ago and triple that of predecessors brought to market during the early 1990s
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Friday 21 March, 2008 10:07 AM |
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